[Python-ideas] Exploiting type-homogeneity in list.sort() (again!)

[Elliot Gorokhovsky]

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:12 PM MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

>
> Although it's true that both programmers and Python might treat 10 as
> functionally identical to 10.0, in practice the numbers that are being
> added to the list probably come from some code that returns integers
> /or/ floats, rather than a mixture.
>

Yes, exactly. So we can see how the homogeneity assumption is a reasonable
one to make; unless you're defining custom compares (uncommon), I don't see
where you would ever be sorting a heterogeneous list except for the
int/float case.
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